archiveAugust 2016

International

SENSITY SYSTEMS ADDS TO SMART CITIES “DREAM TEAM”

Sensity Systems Inc., provider of leading Internet of Things (IoT) solutions for Smart Cities, today announced two leadership appointments and the addition of four advisors to its Advisory Board. Sensity’s new Chief Technology Officer (CTO) is Geoff Arnold, an industry veteran in distributed systems and cloud computing, while Tahir H. Khan has been appointed as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). The new Sensity Advisory board members are James Gosling, known as the ‘father’ of the Java programming language, Ed Davis, the former Police Commissioner of Boston, the Honorable Steve Goldsmith,...
International

INTER-AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK ISSUES GUIDE TO BUILDING A SMART CITY

In a practical guide for smart city development and management, published last week, the bank highlighted the importance of removing silos within government and engaging citizens in the process of developing a sustainable city, managed through new technologies, from start to finish. In particular, digitisation should be used to increase transparency and enable citizens to monitor city finances, which should be raised from a variety of sources and have the support of different players, it said. Financial sustainability is one of the biggest barriers to smart city development, it continued,...
Smart Cities

PROJECT MONITORING UNIT SET UP TO TAKE CHENNAI’S SMART CITY PROPOSALS FORWARD

The first board meeting of Chennai Smart City Limited was held on Thursday, setting the ball rolling for implementation of the proposals.Following the meeting, officials are expected to put in place a project-monitoring unit to guide the departments in formulating various projects associated with Smart City proposals. The State government had formed Chennai Smart City Limited, a special purpose vehicle (SPV), for implementing proposals covering aspects such as water supply, solid waste management, non-motorised transport, stormwater drains, electrical network and integration of utilities. The SPV is set to start assessing...